San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-20
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs.

WHEN it comes to hauling one hun
dred and nine dead cattle out OF one
mudhole, into which one hundred and
eleven waded to get water, it looks a
| little bilious for ranchmen in Texas.
| This was done last week in Millett's
| pasture, LaSalle county.
ALABAMA goes right along making
new discoveries of mineral deposits and
| the thing grows so common rs TO be-
come monOtonous. An inexhaustible
deposit Of asphalt is the latest.
DANIEL WEBSTER, Abraham Lincoln
and Henry Ward BeeCher are regarded
by Phillips Brooks as the great Ameri-
cans of this century. lfthey are not let
| some one name greater.
EVEN old Maine has law OF two up
on her statute books that southern
states might probably copy, DOtwith-
standing Blaine lives there. The law,
for instance, that fOrbids the working of
any child under fifteen years of age,
while schools are in session. Texas
would not be hurt by such law.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL appears to be
almost as much in love with England as
England was with him. He sails for
Europe today. How long he will be
absent is not stated. Russell is intensely
American in his thinking, but il too
broad to be localized.
THE general impression made by Sec
rotary Bayard's diplomacy in the Cut
ting case and in the schooner Rebecca
case, is that he is too small man for as
large q country as Uncle Sam now farms.
His nose was too small for successful
Insertion of it between the teeth of Mr..
Diaz.
IT lie stated that since the local option
law went into effect in Georgia, distil-
leries in that state have increased 81
per cent. Coming events cast their
shadows before.
Russia bas not yet passed the Bulga-
rian boundary line, and as q cOnse-
quence, the heated temper of the re-
gents is allowed time to cool. For
genuine exhibition Of grit the Bulgarian
regency leads modern Europe.
FORT WORTH Gazette gets wrathy at
the San Antonio Express and filings at
"Tamaleville." The Gazette knows that
1t gains no credit by so doing. The sulk-
ings of pouty child do not represent
the temper Of whole family. The Ca
zctte fOrgets that childish things are not
put away until mans estate is reached.
The great concern In New York dem
Ocratic circles is to determine whether
the Fat Boy of Buffalo" can capture
the convention persimmon.
THE Houston Post sat down to write
San Antonio must be q very sensible
town. The intelligent compositor made
it read "sensitive," but the Alamo City
forgives the editor for the slip and cred
Its him for good intentions.
IL Grover has exhausted ninety five
per cent of his presidential postoffice
appointments, and has not started the
moisture on the face Of his second term
boom, what does he expect to accom-
plish with his remaining five per cent
He can figure this out in the fall OF 1888
while whistling for a lost boom.
FRANCE is nightly concerned over
that 81 900 900 Hayti owes England. Is
che kicking up dust to hide the vast
proportions of that $500, 0OO. 900 she
claims herself since 1915, but dares not
dun John for? The republic will very
probably do " hat the monarchy so long
neglected.
Mr.. DWIGHT MOODY believes In a per-
sonal devil. That he has good grounds
for his belief every printing office in the
country will bear testimony, and sub
scribe to the papers.
If prohibition comes short OF the ex-
pectation Of Bros. Crsnflll and DOhoney,
local option may suit their fancy. The
new local option law requires fresh
certificate from the doctor every time a
man reDews his smiles. The certificate
business will be the best part of the
average doctors practice in that event.
Rev. JOSEPH PARKER, Of London,
| Beecfer's staunch friend since the TIL
ton unpleasantness, is speoulated about
as probable successor to Henry Ward
Beecher. Rev. Parker has won for him
self, In London, place so dlstinctiVely
! his own, is SO thoroughly identified with
numerous educational and publishing
enterprises that to transplant him would
tear things up by the roots across seas.
1t Is not at all likely he will accept the
place even iftendered, nor is II at all GER
tain that it will be rendered Beecher's
| pulpit was prominently new American,
and no LOndOner can represent that
| phase Of the literary and theological
thought Of this present.